Zscheiplitz

Zscheiplitz City of Freyburg (Unstrut) Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 53 ″  N , 11 ° 44 ′ 10 ″  E
Incorporation :	1991
Incorporated into:	Freyburg (Unstrut)
Postal code :	06632
Area code :	034464

Zscheiplitz has been part of Freyburg (Unstrut) in the Burgenland district in southern Saxony-Anhalt since 1991 .

geography

Zscheiplitz over the Unstrut

Zscheiplitz Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Zscheiplitz, aerial photo (2011)

The place is located on the elevated left bank of the Unstrut within sight of the Neuchâtel about two kilometers west of Freyburg.

history

The first written mention of the place dates back to the year 1085. The name Sciplice mentioned there suggests a Slavic foundation. In a castle White Castle residence mentioned lived here from 1041 to 1085 Pfalzgraf Friedrich III. of Saxony. After his murder, the castle was converted into the Benedictine monastery of St. Bonifacius on St. Martini's mountain in 1089 by Friedrich's widow, Adelheid († 1110), who had meanwhile married Ludwig the Springer . The monastery was abolished in the course of secularization in 1540 and converted into a knightly man's estate, which was expropriated in the course of the land reform in 1945.

Until 1815 the place belonged to the Wettin , later Electoral Saxon office of Freyburg . In 1813 Napoléon Bonaparte had the place occupied by his troops in order to secure the retreat after their defeat in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig when crossing the Unstrut. By the resolutions of the Vienna Congress Zscheiplitz came to Prussia and in 1816 the county Querfurt in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony assigned to which it belonged until the 1944th

Culture and sights

Concerts are held regularly in the St. Bonifatius monastery church of the former medieval Benedictine monastery , which has been renovated since 1985 by the Zscheiplitz Monastery Church (IGZ) (from 1995: Zscheiplitz Monastery - Klosterbrüder eV ) . At night the church is illuminated from the outside and can be seen from a great distance.

A winery on the site of the former manor offers an ostrich farm four months a year in addition to wine tasting . The owner family has presented exhibitions in the manor house of the manor since 2015.

In the immediate vicinity of the property is the water tower, which was built as a lookout tower in 1866 and can be climbed. It offers a wide view of the Unstruttal , the Zeddenbachmühle, the Neuchâtel and the Balgstädt Castle .

The geopath leads u. a. past a former lime kiln.

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  Manor

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  Monastery church

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  Water tower

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  Zeddenbachmühle

People connected to the place

• Christoph Felgenhauer († 1639), merchant, owner of the Zscheiplitz manor until 1630
• Adam Friedrich Senfft von Pilsach (1723–1783), electoral Saxon district chief of the spa district, supervisor of the hall rafts and owner of the manors Zscheiplitz and Oberschmon

Web links

Commons : Zscheiplitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Comprehensive information about Zscheiplitz at www.blaues-band.de
• Material on Zscheiplitz Castle in the Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin (PDF; 215 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 34 f.
2. ↑ The district of Querfurt in the municipal directory 1900
3. ^ Monastery church of St. Bonifatius Zscheiplitz